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NASB | 2 Chronicles 25:7 But a man of God came to him saying, "O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel nor with any of the sons of Ephraim. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Chronicles 25:7 But a man of God came to him, saying, "O king, do not let this army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel nor with any of the sons of Ephraim. |
Bible Question: I need to know why Amaziah hired Israelites, were they from those who defected to Judah when the kingdoms split? Or did he actually ask Israelites if they wanted to help? |
Bible Answer: smalltinygirl It is really hard to tell from just reading the scriptures surrounding this verse you have there, but I will try. Judah was seen this time as being more faithful to God than Israel in the North. But we do know something for sure, Amaziah took a census before being ready to go to war. That means he made some sort of assessment about how many men he needed to fight the Edomites, the men of Seir. Amaziah had 300,000 men of war and decided that that was not enough. Now, we have no idea how many Edomites, the men of Seir there were, but Amaziah was concerned that 300,000 would not be enough to do the job. So since he had no more men of war he could get from Judah, he hired some out of Israel, 100,000 to feel satisified that he had enough men to go to war. What is unclear from this account or from the other one about the same thing in 2 Kings 14 is if the talents were paid to the men who were warriors or to the king of Israel, Jehoahaz. You have to ask the question at this point; since the scripture does not say these men defected Israel and got paid can we assume they did? Well perhaps if they had the scriptures would have said that they did defect, but it does not so it is safer to assume they did not and that the talents were paid to King Jehoahaz. About the kingdom split; where does it say any people from Israel defected to Judah? It says that Rehobaom fled to Jerusalem and gathered the house of Judah and Benjamin to himself; but according to 2 Chronicles 10:15 the turn of events was according to the will of the Lord that is was done so. And again in 11:4 the Lord says this thing is from Him. So we shouldn't really look at Judah as defecting, especailly since in all its history Judah was still with the Lord in more times than Israel. In fact in 25:7 the man of God tells Amaziah that God is not pleased for the army of Israel to go with him, but that is probably because Israel was not at that time with the Lord. So according to the text the answer to your question is not crystal clear, but it is most likely they were hired by Amaziah from their king. peacebestill |
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